photo: Ausra The week kicked off with French nuclear energy giant Areva’s acquisition of Silicon Valley solar company Ausra. As I wrote Monday in the Los Angeles Times: French nuclear energy giant Areva has jumped into the U.S. renewable energy market with the acquisition of Ausra, a Silicon Valley solar power plant startup backed by [...]
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Another day, another big solar deal
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, energy, enviro startups, environment, solar energy, solar power plants, SunPower, tagged Areva, Ausra, solar energy, SunPower, SunRay on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Silicon Valley solar star Ausra seeks buyer
Posted in Ausra, Australia, energy, enviro startups, environment, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, SolarReserve, tagged Ausra, OptiSolar, solar energy, solar power plants, Solel on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Ausra Ausra has become the latest credit-crunched solar startup to seek a buyer/investor to bankroll its expansion. As I write Tuesday in The New York Times: Disrupting trillion-dollar energy markets is expensive, as solar companies like OptiSolar and Solel have found. Both sold out to larger, deep-pocketed companies this year. Now Ausra, a high-profile [...]
Solar shakeup: Ausra sells power plant to First Solar
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, environment, First Solar, OptiSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, Solar Millennium, solar power plants, tagged Ausra, First Solar, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Ausra Silicon Valley solar company Ausra has sold its sole remaining solar power plant project in the United States, all but completing its exit from solar farming. As I write Thursday in The New York Times: Ausra is continuing its exit from the business of building solar power plants, announcing on Wednesday that it [...]
Ausra in solar steam deals in Australia, Jordan
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, Australia, energy, environment, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Ausra Silicon Valley solar startup Ausra in January decided to get out of the solar power plant business and focus on supply solar steam systems to developers. As I write in The New York Times today, the company has announced deals in Australia, Jordan and, soon, the United States: Ausra, a Silicon Valley solar [...]
Texas’ first Big Solar project, PG&E’s deal with NRG/eSolar
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, environment, eSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged Ausra, BrightSource Energy, CPS Energy, eSolar, NRG, PG&E, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: Tessera Solar When it comes to renewable energy, Texas has been all about Big Wind. But this week the Lone Star State took on its first Big Solar project when San Antonio utility CPS Energy signed a 27-megawatt deal with Tessera Solar. Houston-based Tessera is the solar farm developer for Stirling Energy Systems, which [...]
Big Labor vs. Big Solar
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green collar jobs, green tech, Natural Resources Defense Council, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Stirling Energy Systems, tagged Ausra, BrightSource Energy, California Unions for Reliable Energy, FPL Group, green collar jobs, Martifer, solar power plants, Spinnaker Energy, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar, unions on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
image: URS Green Wombat spent several months looking into allegations that California labor unions are using environmental laws to pressure solar developers to hire union workers to build large-scale solar power plants. The story was published last Friday in The New York Times: SACRAMENTO — When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big [...]
Big Solar generates big green jobs: report
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, energy, eSolar, First Solar, green policy, green startups, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Stirling Energy Systems, SunPower, tagged Ausra, BrightSource Energy, First Solar, Large-Scale Solar Association, Nevada, solar tax incentives, Stirling Energy Systems, SunPower, Vote Solar on April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
photo: BrightSource Energy As the Nevada legislature debates extending tax breaks for large-scale solar power plants, a new report finds that ramping up solar development in the Silver State could produce thousands of good-paying green jobs while generating nearly $11 billion in economic benefits. The study from San Francisco-based non-profit Vote Solar concludes that 2,000 [...]
Google to map green energy zones
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, enviro startups, environment, First Solar, Google, green startups, green tech, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, SunPower, wind power, tagged Google, Google Earth, green energy zones, Map Green Energy, renewable energy projects on April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Can Google help defuse a simmering green civil war between renewable energy advocates and wildlife conservationists in the American West? That’s the idea behind a new Google Earth mapping project launched Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Audubon Society. Path to Green Energy will identify areas in 13 western states potentially [...]
Desert showdown: Big solar vs. little wildlife
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, climate change, endangered species, energy, enviro startups, First Solar, global warming, green policy, green startups, green tech, OptiSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, Stirling Energy Systems, tagged BrightSource Energy, desert tortoise, Goldman Sachs, Mojave Desert, PG&E, Senator Dianne Feinstein, solar power plants, Southern California Edison on March 26, 2009 | 25 Comments »
photo: Wild Rose Images California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s move to put a large swath of the Mojave Desert off-limits to renewable energy development is splitting the environmental movement and could derail some two dozen solar and wind power projects the state needs to comply with its ambitious climate change laws. On the firing line are [...]
World’s biggest solar deal for Google-backed startup
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, enviro startups, environment, green startups, green tech, PG&E, renewable energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged BrightSource Energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison on February 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Images: BrightSource Energy A ray of sunshine amid the economic gloom: While some solar companies struggle through the downturn, BrightSource Energy on Wednesday morning announced the world’s largest solar energy deal to date – a 20-year contract to supply utility Southern California Edison with 1,300 megawatts of greenhouse gas-free electricity. That’s more than twice the [...]
